https://tacedata.ca/posts/Recent content in blog on TACE DataHugoen-CA2026 TACE Data Management Inc.Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/aws-cost-stage-1-post/Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/aws-cost-stage-1-post/A billing audit of the tacedata.ca AWS account — what was accumulating, what was surprising, and how infrastructure that was supposed to cost nothing ended up at $59/month.https://tacedata.ca/posts/analytics-stage-1-post/Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/analytics-stage-1-post/Setting up server-side traffic analytics for tacedata.ca — and hitting a hard wall in the CloudFront Free pricing plan that blocks all logging features.https://tacedata.ca/posts/econ-stage-6-post/Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/econ-stage-6-post/sixth post in the series: adding threshold detection and SNS email alerts so meaningful indicator crossings surface without having to check the dashboard.https://tacedata.ca/posts/econ-stage-5-post/Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/econ-stage-5-post/fifth post in the series: adding a DynamoDB snapshot store so the dashboard can display 3-month and 6-month sparklines alongside the existing 30-day view.https://tacedata.ca/posts/web-feat-1-post/Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:30:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/web-feat-1-post/Adding a daily GitHub Actions cron workflow so future-dated Hugo posts go live on their scheduled date without a manual push.https://tacedata.ca/posts/econ-stage-4-post/Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/econ-stage-4-post/fourth post in the series: replacing ETF proxies with direct data sources, investigating free alternatives, and fixing a BoC query bug hiding three months of bond yield data.https://tacedata.ca/posts/econ-stage-3-post/Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/econ-stage-3-post/third post in the series: moving all data fetching out of the browser and into AWS Lambda.https://tacedata.ca/posts/econ-stage-2-post/Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/econ-stage-2-post/second post in the series: giving the dashboard a proper home on tacedata.ca and the decisions that went into it.https://tacedata.ca/posts/econ-stage-1-post/Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/econ-stage-1-post/first post in a series documenting the build-out of a Canadian economic indicators dashboard.https://tacedata.ca/posts/sec-stage-2-post/Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/sec-stage-2-post/Cleaning git history removes data from your repo — but not from search engines, the Wayback Machine, or GitHub’s cache. Here is what to check.https://tacedata.ca/posts/sec-stage-1-post/Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/sec-stage-1-post/After a security review flagged AWS identifiers committed to a public repo, we used git-filter-repo to scrub them from all 46 commits — including file content and commit messages.https://tacedata.ca/posts/web-stage-6-post/Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/web-stage-6-post/Setting up availability monitoring for tacedata.ca using CloudWatch Synthetics — what it is, what it costs, and how we set it up.https://tacedata.ca/posts/tacedata-site-post/Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/tacedata-site-post/Introducing the new tacedata.ca — why I moved from WordPress to a static site on AWS, and what I plan to do with it.https://tacedata.ca/posts/web-stage-5-post/Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/web-stage-5-post/Moving tacedata.ca from Websavers DNS to AWS Route 53 — what the cutover actually involves, and how to do it without taking the site down.https://tacedata.ca/posts/web-stage-4-post/Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/web-stage-4-post/Getting the site into a state worth sharing — PaperMod setup, profile home page, content structure, and a few problems solved along the way.https://tacedata.ca/posts/web-stage-3-post/Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/web-stage-3-post/How we set up S3, CloudFront, and a GitHub Actions deploy pipeline for tacedata.ca — no long-lived credentials, no manual deploys.https://tacedata.ca/posts/web-stage-2-post/Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/web-stage-2-post/Why email migration had to happen before any DNS work — moving tacedata.ca email to Fastmail without losing anything.https://tacedata.ca/posts/web-stage-1-post/Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tacedata.ca/posts/web-stage-1-post/Evaluated Hugo and three themes before committing to a stack — and what we were actually looking for.